WEIRD IS THE WORLD: Film director booted off flight for being fat

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HEADLINE: Film director booted off flight for being fat
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/film-director-kevin-smith-booted-off-southwest-airlines-flight-for-being-fat/story-e6frfq80-1225830330236
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SELF-DESCRIBED "way fat" director Kevin Smith was booted from a Southwest Airlines flight because of his size, according to his own breathless minute-by-minute tweets.
Smith, the millionaire director and writer of Clerks and Zack and Miri Make a Porno was thrown off the US budget airline's Boeing 737 late Saturday night in Oakland, California, because the captain deemed him a "flight risk," Smith tweeted. The incident was first reported by TMZ overnight.

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HEADLINE: Police investigate Scottish kilt dropper
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/world/police-investigate-scottish-kilt-dropper/story-e6frfkz9-1225830278404
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BRITISH police are investigating after a Scottish rugby fan exposed himself on live television.
The Scot dropped his kilt while facing the camera on Friday evening's news program BBC Wales Today, ahead of Wales' dramatic Six Nations victory over Scotland in Cardiff on Saturday.

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HEADLINE: Pope gives holy seal of approval to pop classics
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7026960.ece
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... Yesterday, however, the Vatican gave its imprimatur not only to Santana and Oasis, but also to the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, U2, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac in a list of approved pop albums published in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. ...

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HEADLINE: Britain's sexiest female farmer crowned
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7222429/Britains-sexiest-female-farmer-crowned.html
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Blonde Anna Simpson has been voted Britain's sexiest female farmer. Miss Simpson, 25, beat hundreds of rivals to be crowned the most attractive female farmer in the country.

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HEADLINE: Catholics get condoms with their roses
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/free-condoms-with-valentines-flowers-in-the-philippines/story-e6frev20-1225830085509
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MEN buying flowers for Valentine's Day were given something else for the weekend in the Philippines, Asia's staunchly Roman Catholic outpost -- free condoms.
The health department set up two tents and booths carrying the slogan "Are You Sexually Active?'' at Manila's Dangwa wholesale flower market on the day before St Valentine's.

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HEADLINE: School teacher replaced by a website
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/teachers-replaced-with-a-dyi-website/story-e6frfkwi-1225830289226
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FURIOUS parents are demanding the New South Wales Education Department explain why their children have been abandoned without a qualified 2-unit maths teacher for the first month of Year 12.

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HEADLINE: U.K. Pastor: 'Wives, Submit to Your Husbands'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585771,00.html?test=latestnews
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A pair of British church leaders are under fire for preaching in sermons that "modern women's" lack of obedience is to blame for the country's high divorce rate, The Daily Mail reported.

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HEADLINE: Asian Carp: If You Can't Beat 'em, Eat 'em
SOURCE LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/asian-carp-endangering-great-lakes/story?id=9830667
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At this week's National Grocers Association convention in Las Vegas, celebrity chef Philippe Parola was touting his new favorite fish. '[It has] 70-percent more Omega-3 than in catfish and tilapia," an animated Parola told an assembled crowd at his booth. "No mercury because it's a filter fish." Parola was talking about the Asian carp -- a slimy, boney fish that breeds quickly and is widely considered a pest. Parola's message: Eat the carp. Save the Great Lakes.

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HEADLINE: Man Wakes From Coma When Told He's a Grandfather
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585594,00.html
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After David Russell spent two weeks in a coma, he proved some things are worth waking up for.
Russell finally opened his eyes when his wife whispered in his ear that he had just become a grandfather for the first time, the Daily Mail reported.
Doctors had cautioned Helen Russell that her 60-year-old husband did not have a good prognosis, and now against all odds he is making a full recovery after hearing about the new addition to the family.

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HEADLINE: Couple Celebrates 71 Years of Marriage
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585743,00.html
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SEFFNER, Fla. — His hand brushed hers ever so lightly, and in that moment, Charlie Wellen's life changed.
"A big jolt of electricity went through me," he says. "Wow! I'll never forget that. And it's been that good ever since."
Her name was Barbara, a comely brunette with a quick wit. She lived with her folks two doors down from his family in the tiny town of Phillipsburg, N.J. — P-burg for short. They courted for about a year, then had a Catholic wedding ceremony.
On Thursday, the Seffner couple celebrated 71 years as husband and wife.

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HEADLINE: Five-foot-long crab goes on show
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8504132.stm
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